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Old 10-27-2021, 03:18 PM   #37 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Trollheart View Post
I guess it is a thing this side of the water. I mean, it's a tradition here. Nobody hates the song (except Mr. Burns, as per my journal some years ago) but there are songs that are played every single Christmas without fail - WHAM's "Last Christmas", Slade's "Merry Christmas Everybody", Mud's "Lonely this Christmas" and Greg ****ing Lake's "I Believe in Father Christmas" among them - and you just get sick of hearing them.

All the same, now that you've heard it isn't it the same song, almost?
Let's say it's cut from the same cloth.

Australia has the best Xmas song ever: Paul Kelly's "How To Make Gravy." I never tire of hearing this song.



The video is distracting; best to just listen and concentrate on the words.
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